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So, what happens when you
can't make the denominator a pretty power of 10?
Well, we just use long
division and do a little rounding. Let's just make
our answers go to one decimal point.
Let's try one:
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to a percent: |
First, we use long
division to convert the fraction to a decimal...

Just like we thought,
it's giving a repeating decimal:

So, we can give our
answer as

Or we can round off
and approximate the answer as

Notice that I used a
wavy
equals for "approximately equal!"
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